The lady who flew as a stowaway from New York to Paris has been recognized as 57-year-old Svetlana Dali.
She stays in France after allegedly inflicting a disturbance on a return flight to the US.
Ms Dali, whose id was confirmed by CBS, boarded a Delta Airlines flight final week from New York’s JFK airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris with out a boarding move.
She was taken into custody upon arrival in France.
French National Police mentioned the lady is of Russian nationality and was refused entry to France as a result of she had no visa. She has not been charged.
Ms Dali was capable of get via a complicated imaging expertise physique scanner at JFK airport, and dodge doc and ID checks through the safety course of.
In a press release supplied to BBC’s information associate CBS, a TSA spokesperson confirmed that “a person with out a boarding move was bodily screened with none prohibited objects. The particular person bypassed two id verification and boarding standing stations and boarded the plane.”
But it stays unclear how she was capable of get via and board the airplane.
“Nothing is of larger significance than issues of security and safety,” Delta mentioned in a press release. “That’s why Delta is conducting an exhaustive investigation of what could have occurred and can work collaboratively with different aviation stakeholders and legislation enforcement to that finish.”
The Guardian reported that after on board, Ms Dali moved from one lavatory to a different and by no means took a seat – till flight attendants started to note.
A social media video posted by a passenger reveals the second a captain defined to the airplane that officers had been coming to take away the lady.
“Folks, that is the captain, we’re simply ready for the police to return on board,” he mentioned within the video. “They could also be right here now they usually directed us to maintain everybody on the airplane till we type out the additional passenger that’s on the airplane.”
A person on the flight shared cell phone video with CNN of the lady, who stays in France, allegedly making a disturbance on one other flight that was set to return her to New York.
He mentioned she repeated: “I don’t need to return to the USA. Only a choose could make me return to the USA”.
BBC has not independently verified the movies and it’s unclear what the lady meant.
